{{Short description|American political scientist (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Daniel Ziblatt
| image              = Daniel Ziblatt 2023 2.jpg
| caption            = Ziblatt in 2023
| birth_date         = 1972
| education          = [[Pomona College]] ([[Bachelor's degree|BA]])<br>
[[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[PhD]])
| occupation         = Political scientist
| employer           = [[Harvard University]]
| notable_works      = [[Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy]]<br>
[[How Democracies Die]]
}}
'''Daniel Ziblatt''' (born 1972) is an American [[Political science|political scientist]] who has been Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at [[Harvard University]] since 2018. He holds an expertise in [[democracies]], their infrastructural and procedural innerworkings.

== Education ==
Ziblatt holds a BA in German studies and politics from [[Pomona College]] and a PhD in political science from [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bio and CV |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/dziblatt/node/637974 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=scholar.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref>

== Research ==
In 2018, Ziblatt published ''[[How Democracies Die]]'' with fellow Harvard scholar [[Steven Levitsky]]. The book examines the conditions that can lead democracies to break down from within, rather than due to external events such as military coups or foreign invasions. ''How Democracies Die'' received widespread praise. It spent a number of weeks on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]] and six weeks on the non-fiction bestseller list of the German weekly ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-159073580.html
 | title = Sachbuch
 | last =
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 | date = 25 August 2018
 | website = Spiegel Online
 | publisher = Der Spiegel
 | access-date = 8 December 2019
}}</ref>

The book was recognized as one of the best nonfiction books of 2018 by ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', and ''[[Foreign Affairs]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246/how-democracies-die-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/9781524762940/ |title= How Democracies Die |author=<!--Not stated--> |website= Penguin Random House |access-date= 13 March 2019}}</ref>

==Publications==
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=== Books ===
*''Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point'', with [[Steven Levitsky]], (Crown, 2023, {{ISBN|978-0-593-44307-1}})
*''[[How Democracies Die]]'', with [[Steven Levitsky]], (Crown, 2018, {{ISBN|9780525574538}}) – [[NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis]] 2018; [[Goldsmith Book Prize]] 2019
*''[[Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy]],'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, {{ISBN|9781107001626}})<ref name="FrumReview">{{cite news |last1=Frum |first1=David |title=Why Do Democracies Fail? (book review) |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/why-do-democracies-fail/530949/ |access-date=8 November 2018 |publisher=[[The Atlantic]] |date=20 June 2017}}</ref>
*''Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism,'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|9780691121673}})

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://scholar.harvard.edu/dziblatt/pages/curriculum-vitae-1 Daniel Ziblatt] at [[Harvard University]] Retrieved 8 December 2019
*{{YouTube|5v4NTtS2f5k| Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democracies Die", Politics and Prose 6-2-2018}} Retrieved 8 December 2019
*{{C-SPAN|112215}}

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[[Category:21st-century American political scientists]]
[[Category:Harvard University faculty]]
[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]

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